Product Summary

A cone pulley is a pulley consisting of a cone like arrangement of graduated, concentric pulleys for driving the headstock at different speeds. The cone pulley was first announced in the November 1920 Meccano Magazine, and is described as a part "which enables the user to drive a lathe or other machine at three different speeds". It was added to outfits 6 and 7 when all the outfits were substantially reorganized in 1922.
A pulley, also called a sheave or a drum, is a mechanism composed of a wheel on an axle or shaft that may have a groove between two flanges around its circumference.[1] A rope, cable, belt, or chain usually runs over the wheel and inside the groove, if present. Pulleys are used to change the direction of an applied force, transmit rotational motion, or realize a mechanical advantage in either a linear or rotational system of motion. It is one of the six simple machines. Two or more pulleys together are called a block and tackle.